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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 09 August 2015 03:57:24PM 4 points [-]

We should do this for software engineering holy war debates, like dynamic vs static languages, IDE or not, or whether open source is mostly good or mostly bad.

Comment author: VoiceOfRa 09 August 2015 07:09:33PM 5 points [-]

whether open source is mostly good or mostly bad.

Wait, I'm confused. There are still people claiming that open source is mostly bad?

Comment author: LessWrong 12 August 2015 12:15:58PM 0 points [-]
  1. I thought each language performs certain roles better, so it depends on the task involved.
  2. Programming is mostly text, so the debate should be vi and emacs, and it's a fruitless one. Learn both.
  3. Any reason to keep your source code unavailable? I can see a monetary one, and a psychological one (insecurity).

Any time you have to deal with a big field, you should cut it down into human-readable sections.

Comment author: ChristianKl 12 August 2015 12:42:08PM 1 point [-]

Programming is mostly text, so the debate should be vi and emacs, and it's a fruitless one. Learn both.

Neither vi nor emacs is an IDE. A good idea can provide for features like online linting that vi and emacs mostly don't provide.

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